I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-flow-update-06.txt

2011-05-12 Thread internet-drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : Rationale for update to the IPv6 flow label specification Author(s) : Shane Amante

Flow label drafts updated again

2011-05-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, The RFC3697bis draft has been updated again, principally to resolve the remaining points raised by Thomas Narten and the point raised by Ran Atkinson. The rationale draft (draft-carpenter-6man-flow-update) has been updated to keep it in step (for example, some additional references for firewal

I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis-04.txt

2011-05-12 Thread internet-drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : IPv6 Flow Label Specification Author(s) : Shane Amante Brian Carpenter

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 5/12/2011 3:22 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: Mark Smith wrote: I think it would be reasonable to make DHCP a SHOULD, however I've thought that one of the reasons SLAAC exists is to provide simpler and lighter weight address configuration method for resource constrained end-nodes such as embe

RE: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
Mark Smith wrote: > I think it would be reasonable to make DHCP a SHOULD, however > I've thought that one of the reasons SLAAC exists is to provide > simpler and lighter weight address configuration method for resource > constrained end-nodes such as embedded ones. So perhaps it could be > worth m

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Thomas, On Thu, 12 May 2011 09:23:20 -0400 Thomas Narten wrote: > Ole, > > Getting back to some of your other points... > > Ole Troan writes: > > >> * RFC2675: I would just remove that. > > > > > However, I do not see evidence that the WG has changed its thinking > and would now be wil

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:20:30 +0200 Ole Troan wrote: > >> To put it another way, if we think there is a good use case for this > >> as Ole describes, we will be doing a service to the devices that > >> don't have their IPv6 code yet, to make it a SHOULD so they are > >> more likely to implement it

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-05-13 01:23, Thomas Narten wrote: ... > I personally would support having DHCP be a SHOULD rather than a > MAY. The justification in my mind is that if you want the network > operator to have the choice of whether they want to use Stateless > addrconf OR DHCP, they only have that choice of

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Bob Hinden
Ran, On May 12, 2011, at 7:55 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote: > On Friday 6th May 2011, Ole Troan wrote in part: >> basically I want the document to say that IETF has standardised >> two mechanisms to configure hosts. one using ND and one using DHCP. >> As they apply to different management models, nodes

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Randy Bush
> I personally would support having DHCP be a SHOULD rather than a > MAY. thank you randy IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 ---

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread RJ Atkinson
On Friday 6th May 2011, Ole Troan wrote in part: > basically I want the document to say that IETF has standardised > two mechanisms to configure hosts. one using ND and one using DHCP. > As they apply to different management models, nodes SHOULD implement both. On 12th May 2011, Thomas Narten res

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Thomas Narten
Ole, Getting back to some of your other points... Ole Troan writes: > >> * RFC2675: I would just remove that. > > > > The docuent currently says: > > > > IPv6 Jumbograms [RFC2675] MAY be supported. > > > > How about I replace that with: > > > > IPv6 Jumbograms [RFC2675] are an opti

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Ole Troan
>> To put it another way, if we think there is a good use case for this >> as Ole describes, we will be doing a service to the devices that >> don't have their IPv6 code yet, to make it a SHOULD so they are >> more likely to implement it. > > Here is some proposed text: > > 5.3. Default Router

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-12 Thread Thomas Narten
> To put it another way, if we think there is a good use case for this > as Ole describes, we will be doing a service to the devices that > don't have their IPv6 code yet, to make it a SHOULD so they are > more likely to implement it. Here is some proposed text: 5.3. Default Router Prefere